So this day we decided to seek out a bBQ for our trip south to Bordeaux in coming weeks. We dropped the RV rental idea as just too damned expensive, roughly 1500 USD a week! Gads, lotta money to drive a vehicle around that will get probably 10mpg at 6 dollars a gallon, wow. Cost per mile is a bitch!
So we will feature a BBQ each evening and sandwiches during the day with local products all the way!
So we went off to Montlucon about an hour southeast of here and a big city.
Our target there was the Troc d'Lille, a used furniture antique sort-of store with many outlets about the region. We've bought lots of things over the years to decorate and furnish our French homes. This time I saw not a thing of real interest but Kelly got caught by a un-set of restaurant quality bowls and plates in red and white with a Chateau depicted on the plate edges. Checki9ng with the iNet after we got home she found out that indeed it was a real chateau and that it was a Mental Hospital! Wonderful! Per4fect!
Andy's parcel, the last one expected, arrived today with a new video card for this machine as well as a REAL router (NETGEAR) which I will install tomorrow with any luck. The TrendNet one I had worked flawlessly for years until 2 weeks ago when i went south for some reason. No email, slow as hell access when it did work at all...who knows what went wrong but perhaps a local lightning strike did the damned thing in, anyway it has been replaced with a swith instead, no wireless, and is working now.
Watching France vs Poland with my damned neighbors interference broadcast on top of the signal. Alas...
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